{"id":306963,"date":"2019-12-23T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306963"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:30:58","slug":"switzerland-shuts-down-ageing-nuke-power-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/switzerland-shuts-down-ageing-nuke-power-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland shuts down ageing nuke power station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of four Swiss nuclear power stations was permanently disconnected  on Friday after 47 years of service, marking a first in Switzerland, as the country begins to gradually phase out atomic energy.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to press the \u201coff\u201d button for good at the ageing Muhleberg plant in western Switzerland came amid soaring upkeep costs, and leaves the wealthy Alpine nation with three remaining nuclear plants in service. \u201cThis is the first ever decommissioning of a power reactor in Switzerland,\u201d Swiss energy company BKW, the plant operator, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was commissioned in November 1972, the plant had pumped out some 130 billion kilowatts per hour of electricity, which is enough to cover the current electrical consumption of the Swiss capital Bern\u2019s some one million inhabitants for more than a century, BKW said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of four Swiss nuclear power stations was permanently disconnected on Friday after 47 years of service, marking a first in Switzerland, as the country begins to gradually phase out atomic energy. The decision to press the \u201coff\u201d button for good at the ageing Muhleberg plant in western Switzerland came amid soaring upkeep costs, and leaves the wealthy Alpine nation with three remaining nuclear plants in service. \u201cThis is the first ever decommissioning of a power reactor in Switzerland,\u201d Swiss energy company BKW, the plant operator, said in a statement. Since it was commissioned in November 1972, the plant had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}